Fouta Halal

"Fouta is a combination Senegalese and Guinean restaurant serving signature dishes from both countries. From Senegal, try the chicken mafe, the bird stewed in a thick peanut sauce laced with scotch bonnet peppers. From Guinea, there’s a leaf-based sauce called sauce de feuilles dotted with lamb (meats can vary in both dishes). The menu changes often with a few dishes available from each cuisine, so ask the counter person." - Caroline Shin

"Fouta is a combination Senegalese and Guinean restaurant serving signature dishes from both countries. From Senegal, try the chicken mafe, the bird stewed in a thick peanut sauce laced with scotch bonnet peppers. From Guinea, there’s a leaf-based sauce called sauce de feuilles dotted with lamb (meats can vary in both dishes). The menu changes often with a few dishes available from each cuisine, so ask the counter person." - Caroline Shin, Robert Sietsema

"Located in the Soundview section of the Bronx, which is now home to many West African immigrants from Senegal and Guinea, Fouta’s halal menu combines dishes from both cuisines. The interior has a clubhouse feel, and men sit around in robes and skullcaps eating bowls of fluffy white polished rice and sauce de feuilles made with sweet potato leaf, or lamb mafe decorated with a single scotch bonnet pepper. First-time visitors are made welcome, and French and English are readily spoken." - Robert Sietsema